The healing warmth of the stone oven
Warmth to the relaxation and relief of everyday discomfort
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Published in "Kachelofen & Kamine" issue 8/2010
From the solar warmth to the stone and fire warmth
The sun is our hottest warm spring. Without them no life would be possible. Only with the help of the solar warmth there prosper the plants which are available to us as food.
The sunrays penetrate the universe without this to warm up. Even in 10,000 meters above the earth surface still there rule temperatures of-50 degrees Celsius. Only while striking on the earth, there rises the surface temperature. Only steady bodies like earth and water absorb the sunrays. The water temperature rises as a result of the warm admission and the water molecules start to evaporate, so that the air humidity increases, above all, with strong sunlight, how in the equator. From the vaporization originates a cooling process which allows to rise the temperature of the water more slowly than those of the metal surfaces which are exposed to the sun. Also the coast sand often has a higher temperature than the air. Thus fried eggs can be roasted during hot summer days in spite of an air temperature by 27 degrees Celsius on the hood. Also a solar bath generates
strong sweating on the skin surface, however, at first the skin before overheating protects with longer application to the dehydration and, in the end, to a sunburn leads. A raised thirst feeling forms with the sweating. The humanity has revered the sun as a life-making a donation curative strength since millennium.
The solar energy forms the basis of the energy of the fossil fuels. Our forefathers used the stored solar energy of the wood. Hence, the open fire has developed as a popular warm spring. During the burn up occurred a continuous aerial change. Fresh air flowed out after. After the burn up an almost entire closing of the chimney occurred to prevent a quick cooling of the walls by the draft. By the storage of the warmth in the space walls the warm loss kept to a certain extent.
Warmth counts as one of the oldest most natural remedial method of the humanity
The old Egyptians relieved and already cured 2,400 B.C. all kinds of everyday discomfort with packings from hot Nile mud. The Romans
established, in the end, big thermal baths and used the thermal springs for therapeutic purposes. Warmth was always popular and tried and tested means to the general relaxation and against discomfort of all kind. Today thermal baths, sauna, hot covers or hay flower packings substitute for the hot Nile mud.
The oldest forms of the warm baths are stone caves, earth pits or sweat lodges from loam, stone or wood in which the warmth was stored by burning of wood. The warm spring was either the open fire or the heated up stones which were often heated up outside the sweat lodge and were carried then in the sweat tend. To cure the Indian's tribes carbonize on the hot stones often medicinal herbs around everyday discomfort. The Finnish sauna stove likewise existed of accumulated stones which were heated up by the fire which stored warmth and delivered this then slowly by radiation again. Warm baths have a long tradition and
are to be imagined as not existing in the physical therapy no more. With the thermal baths the warmth will transfer by conduction and they warm up exclusively the body surface. However, hot air saunas transfer the warmth by convection. Older people with circulation problems have with it often problems. Nevertheless, the most successful applications are a mud, fango-and mud-baths whose warm conduction is lower compared with water, so that higher temperatures can be applied. Worry of the respiratory tract by hot or dry air plays, on this occasion, no role.
However, stone stoves transfer the warmth by radiation, so that the body surface and not the air is warmed up. A natural airing is thereby possible like in the Finnish sauna or with the Mexican Temazcalli. The air is not used as a warm carrier, hence, it is loaded not dry and they also not the respiratory tract. Further the warmed up walls distinguish themselves by the fact that they take away no warmth by
radiation from the body in the direction of walls.
Factors of a healing stone oven climate
Heat radiation
The stone oven delivers the warmth mainly in the form of radiation. The warm transference occurs without medium like air or water and she transfers in contrast to water or air no cold. Steady and liquid materials absorb the striking warm rays and then these convert themselves into body warmth. Hence, there rises, above all, the skin temperature and the temperature of the wall surface. Hence, the air warms itself up only slowly by way there planing above warm surfaces. Air is for warm rays permeable except carbon dioxide gases and steam molecules. Elementary gases like hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and such one emit no warmth and are completely permeable. Because the emited warmth of the stone oven is absorbed mainly by steady bodies and not from air, the warm loss is also rather low by convection.
While the warm rays of the fire can be very intensive, however, the temperature of the warm radiation of the stone stove is weaker. The stone masses store the superfluous warmth and deliver them in mild form for a longer period again. Hence, the warm intensity is different according to distance of the warm spring. The closer one is to the warm spring, the warm perception is the stronger also.
Thus one feels the heat in the campfire very intensely if it can be also very cold outside.
The determining is here not the height of the air temperature, like some mean, but the radiation ability of the stone oven. Because the warm rays continue only straight-lined and do not bend around the corner, the warm loss is very low outwardly.
Air temperature
Because the body surface is warmed up, above all, by the heat radiation of the stone oven and not from the aerial body, the height of the air temperature is not decisive. Hence, the air can be chill, indeed, a draft must be avoided in the space. High air temperatures mostly lead to dry air, because the steam molecules condense on the walls. However, the continuous aerial change is already important from health reasons because the human body can store no oxygen on stock, because already with slight oxygen lowering the brain reacts to it - the person gets tired.
With medicinal baths the air temperature plays an inessential role because the warmth of the water will transfer and only one low aerial warming occurs.
The natural aerial change changes the air temperature only slightly. The aerial body remains rather chill, so that the human body can deliver his waste heat without interruption furthermore like to air baths which are necessary between sauna ways to wake up the own forces of the organism.
In the stone oven climate there is also no air temperature slope, because the warm rays spread out like beams of light and no air temperature difference thereby originates between ground and cover.
Natural air exchange
Lastingly closed windows in the apartment damage to the health. The air exchange between interior and outside climate is prevented. The humidity is reflected in closed spaces, however, on the walls. Then the moist walls form a fertile soil on which mould mushrooms settle and from which the spurs spread out in the space air. Oversensitive ones react with inhalation of spurs with allergic reactions. Only if the mould mushrooms are killed and the excess is diminished in heat insulations, these sufferings pass again.
Nowadays experts recommend the push airing as a sufficient airing, because if the window was open constantly a fissure, a lot of warmth gets lost. With the air heating this applies absolutely. With the heat radiation did not hang, because the warm rays continue only straight-lined and do not escape by slits or small openings.
With every breath about one drittel liter of air gets in the lung. In the lung a life-preserving gas exchange takes place. The blood unloads the waste product carbon dioxide from the body and loads it with the energy donator oxygen from the air.
A person can survive only few minutes without oxygen, because each of 75 trillions cells of the body needs oxygen to burn the nutrients with his help. If the oxygen interest only 1 percent sinks, the brain reacts as the first to it - the person gets tired. Hence, a continuous fresh air supply is to the health preservation of advantage, nevertheless, train air must be avoided to a great extent. Further it should be mentioned here that heated air extends and then the inhaled oxygen interest per liter of air is lower.
Air humidity
Not only the temperature, but also the air humidity is for the well-being and healthy living of importance. The air humidity suggested by health experts lies between 40 and 45 percent. If the air humidity is lower, the mucous membranes dry up in the respiratory tract and will lighter strike from viruses which prosper with this climate especially well and cause cold and influenza. Hence, with too dry space air the humidifiers which work as an atomizer or evaporator are mostly recommended. However, these devices must be waited constantly, so that no causes settle and reach in the breath air.
With an air humidity of less than 40 percent a humidifier not only prevents that the mucous membranes dry up in the respiratory tract, but also that they become more susceptible for infections. If dust particles are moistened, they get heavier and sink with the sticking viruses and bacteria to ground.
With air heatings an additional moistening of the space air is to be recommended mostly, because the central heating air is too dry in spite of the humidity delivery of indoor plants and the breath air of the inhabitants.
However, in the stone oven climate the air humidity is always measured, because on the irradiated walls condense no water molecule condense, but they evaporate by the warmth irradiation in the space air and thereby receive the space air humidity in the desirable state.
Air ions
The influence of the air ions has been examined in many studies. The
investigation results show that the ions are able to cause measurable physiological changes. Under physiological points of view the presence of negative ions is exactly as important in heated spaces as the air temperature.
The negative ions contribute substantially to the relaxation. Investigations show that in central-heated apartments a raised number of positive ions are which originate basically from the bad ventilating and influence thus on account of the high interest the sensitivities negatively. Then there pile up headaches, dizzy spell, indisposition and tiredness. Hence, doctors recommend the patient to move more often during the cool winter and spring months in the free nature and to take, besides, a solar bath.
Warm storage and warm radiation of the space walls
Only little warmth is supplied about the warmed up space air to space walls and this generates a relatively low accumulator effect. In addition, there rises the warm conduction if steam molecules can condense in the wall surface and pass on the warmth outwardly. The warm loss outwardly rises. Hence, air heatings make worse the heat accumulator ability of the walls, hence, it is right to fall back on warm insulating materials which reduce the warm conductivity.
One reaches a pleasant warm feeling all around the body, however, only by warmed up space walls which are also able to store warmth. If the space
walls are chill or warm not enough, indeed, the body receives warm supply by convection, however, warmth by radiation, named loses at the same time compared with the chill wall also beaming cooling. This often feels as a kind of train air.
With warm radiation of a stone oven or with the open fire the warm rays are absorbed by the wall and then the water molecules evaporate in the surface, the wall dries up and the warm conduction by the wall is limited. The warmth is stored in the long term, so that the space remains warm, even if no fire burns. The recommendation of air heating experts to use thermal insulating sheets with space walls is here completely is absent on the place, because insulating sheets absorb no warm rays and can store therefore also no warmth. Less energy is thereby moved in warmth. Warmth gets lost.
Fancy, an oven is built with warm insulating material, the bread stove baker would despair, because the bread is baked exclusively only by the warmth of hot stones. Therefore, he can renounce with pleasure warm return.
must be dry and no water molecules the material can flow through, hence, the protection from rain is so important, for example, in the civil engineering.
An original sauna distinguishes itself, in any case, also by the fact that the walls store warmth. However, in the hot air saunas wall isolations are inserted to prevent the admission of humidity of the infusions in the wall. The stone oven heat radiation expels the humidity from the walls and the walls remain always dry and thus, for example, the built with brik sauna does not need specially are aired.
Stone oven climate helps to save immense health costs
Promotion of well-being and relaxation
In order to be relaxing and feeling fine in a space an average air humidity of 40-45 percent as well as a dry space is especially important without moist walls. A continuous aerial renewal belongs to it, because the constant oxygen supply is very important for the combustion processes in the human body.
Warmth-storing materials distinguish themselves by a low warm conductivity, that is that the material
The right warm spring can help to increase the well-being clearly. The warm spring should work not only sparingly and environmentally friendly, but also create a remedial climate. And what is a remedial climate? Coolness, expressionless as well as dust free air, say construction biologists. And physical doctors recommend air baths and solar baths also in the chiller season.
The person on the skin feels radiation warmth as very pleasant. The wholesome radiation of the stone oven is means. With aching back or shoulder leaning against the warm oven works releasing for the tense musculature. Since the heat radiation stimulates the skin and muscle blood circulation.
In the stone oven climate it is like with the solar bath. The nervous tensions resolve bit by bit and we start to breathe deeper and more quietly. The body and the psyche relax. The constant air exchange by fresh air animates the psyche and expels murky thoughts. The psyche can recover.
Suggestion of the peripheral blood circulation
Regular sweating regenerates the blood vessels and the blood pressure what entails that the infarct risk decreases. Since only the blood vessels which well supplies with blood elastic are healthy can support and, the physical and spiritual efficiency. Only then every single body cell is reached by the blood and is supplied with oxygen as well as all other vital materials. Too much fat and not enough movement lead to the formation of depositions in the vessels. It comes for blood circulation
disturbances by which the flawless care of the organs and fabrics with fresh oxygen is guaranteed no more.
The flow in the important blood vessels which supply skin and muscles is improved by the irradiation with warmth again. To the increase of the peripheral blood river is a lowering of the blood viscosity of importance, because warmed up blood flows faster and lighter by the veins. The blood fats form no more big molecular lumps after warming. As in the heated up meat soup the fat lumps resolve and become water-dissolvably.
By the warming the fat molecules start to melt and this the calorie burn as well as the fat dismantling favors above others in the arteries and the liver. Also the blood sugar levels thereby improve.
By the improvement of the blood circulation the blood pressure returns to normal again. This is frequent to ascertain also after the solar bath or with weaker effect after sauna baths.
With stone oven warmth against back pains and rheumatic pains
Back pains can be the result of train air and sweating after the work or training. Both are results of local undercooling, and on it the extremely sensitive musculature reacts in the back with painful tension.
Warmth over the aching place dissolves some tension. Hence, warm applications are was suited to the treatment by chronic discomfort of themovement apparatus and with joint aswell as muscle pains.
Lowering of blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar
Movement poverty as well as too high fat consumption lead to fat metabolism disturbances. Cholesterol and fats deposit visibly in the vascular inner walls and smear the pore openings. The blood lipid concentration rises bit by bit and raises therefore the blood viscosity. The increase of the viscosity impairs, in the end, the flow rate of the blood.
By absorption of warm rays rises the skin temperature and the fluent blood in the skin vessels is thereby warmed up. The blood fats go over, in the end, in smaller, thicker molecules which seal, in the end, no pores, but are transported by the blood lighter further. As with the solar bath cholesterol converts itself in the skin surface into vitamin D and the heat radiation thereby performs a contribution to the better fat metabolism.
She increases the metabolism processes in the fabric, tendons, tapes and bandage fabrics. The elasticity increases and with it the mobility of the joints. With aching muscle spannings warmth can reduce the tension of the musculature. Pains can be relieved so. Warmth also helps in chronic rheumatic pains.
The intensive warm irradiation of the musculature helps to relieve in particular pains.
Back pains are in this country the most frequent reason for the doctor's visit. About 80 percent of the population suffers at least once in the life from back pains. Most often the muscle spannings are the cause which hinder the blood flow. Nevertheless, less blood circulation signifies a slightest oxygen influx and subsequently an assuagement of the muscles also arises. The warm supply in the back helps, in any case, to the relief of pains. Nevertheless, the warm supply should not lead to warm congestions
Healing warmth is inexpensive and available any time
Warmth was always a popular remedy to the relaxation and against discomfort of all kind. Particularly as she was inexpensive and available any time. This counts till this day. Warmth was used about millennium as a natural remedy for therapeutic purposes.
The person spends two thirds of the life in living space, hence, the living room climate is codecisively for the
future health. That warm spring which contributes reasonably, environmentally friendly and to the preservation of the health is was suited. As a warm spring is suitable the combustion of wood whichgrows again continuously and also can be procured any time without trouble of delivery. It can be used when required, in particular in the wintertime if the solar warmth is weak and the surroundings temperatures are so low that colds and inflammations endanger the health of the person. Also campfires have protected cowboys at the cold night in a sheltered from the wind corner without warmth-dammed up walls mostly the survival.
Today the acquired knowledge of experience in the stove construction is underestimated to a great extent, because the heating has to provide, above all, for the health of the person to avoid illnesses. Thus the experience was collected that spaces must offer the protection from moisture, train air and an aerial change. In the construction area one says protection from rain and wind. Many colds and inflammations can be thereby avoided. Only the stove farmer is able to protect the residential owners against undercoolings with stoves. With the healing warmth some back pains and rheumatic pains can be avoided or relieve. Considerable health costs can be thereby saved. Nevertheless, rheumatologists can treat the results only with inflammation-restraining rheumatic middle for life, because they are not able to remove the cause.
